- Location
- Hertfordshire
Check the terms of the lease if you’re buying. It may be the location that’s as valuable as the people or stock being sold.
If it was true, I’d sell up tomorrow and restart on Monday!In your dreams I'd think
If it was true, I’d sell up tomorrow and restart on Monday!
I’m limited. I just work for my businessYou wouldn't be allowed to. I think the saleability determines a business from a sole trader.
I’m limited. I just work for my business
No, you confuse net and gross, net profit is after all costs including salaries.
I believe you work in the same industry as me - isn’t this exactly the sort of terms that businesses are sold on? Maybe not 5x though
Whats Mole valley going to pay for countrywide?5 x net profit.
I wouldn't know Sid as I don't know their asset value or their net profit.Whats Mole valley going to pay for countrywide?
The end of last year I was offered £600k for the 40% share my wife and I hold in our family business, it has very few assets but is a very good business with good profits and good future potential. We turned it down as we didn't think it was enough.In your dreams I'd think
I wouldn't know Sid as I don't know their asset value or their net profit.
The end of last year I was offered £600k for the 40% share my wife and I hold in our family business, it has very few assets but is a very good business with good profits and good future potential. We turned it down as we didn't think it was enough.
Software business often has little or no assets could be worth $$$
Everyone would do it for a value of 5 x net profit. My remark was a tad facetious, though... a valuation based upon that for a small agricultural service business is ludicrous!You still wouldn't be able to start up, unless the agreement wasn't right, else everyone would be doing it.
That's pretty much what I said.quite often with a business on this size, the success of the business depends on the character of the owner/director and people wanting to trade with the individual, normally on a local level, if the wrong person takes over the whole dynamic changes